Yates Was Insane, Psychologist Testifies
Andrea Yates was legally insane when she drowned her five children in the family bathtub last June, a psychologist testified at her capital murder trial in Houston.
Dr. George Ringholz, a neuropsychologist from the Baylor College of Medicine, said he reached that conclusion after studying her medical and family history and tests he conducted on the 37-year-old woman.
“Mrs. Yates was severely ill and in the course of an acute psychotic episode,” Ringholz said in his second day on the witness stand. “She did not know the actions she took on that day were wrong.”
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